Chapter 205: Reunion is like a dream
——"So, it's just because of this?"
Ten minutes later, in the director's office, Lin Yun stood aside, looking at the two people sitting on the sofa and confronting each other, and sighed inexplicably: "I just went to another department, why are you two making a fuss?"
"It's obviously your fault, Senior!"
Hong Siyu leaned forward upon hearing this and pointed at Aso Yuanxiang, who was sitting opposite him and looked calm and composed at the moment: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that Yuanxiang was back! And you didn't even tell me about it?"
"…This is not my problem. This guy didn't inform me before."
Lin Yun folded his arms, subconsciously looking away from Hong Si and said, "How should I put it? Even if I know that a singer with the same name is coming to Fangting City for a concert, I can't confirm it's the real person before I actually see him. If I tell you directly and find out that it's not the same person, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?"
"So the final result is that you won't take me with you?"
Hong Siyu pointed at herself and said, "You mean, all the members of the Fangting City and Gabai'an City teams went to the concert, and everyone went out to play together privately, but I was the only one who had to take one day off on weekends to be on duty? What about me? Where's my share?"
"I think you still need further treatment..." Lin Yun hesitated.
"Chief, I've said it before. I've been cured. I've been cured! Look at me now. There's no trace of a remnant beast left!"
Hong Siyu stood in front of Lin Yun and stretched out her hands: "Senior, please take a closer look. Am I not a normal beautiful girl like this? Can't I see people like this?"
"……Feel sorry."
Lin Yun lowered his head helplessly: "I didn't think it through."
"After all, why did you decide so easily to go to another woman's concert? What if the singer is not Yuanxiang herself?"
Hong Siyu stood on tiptoe and forced her eyes to meet Lin Yun's: "If that's the case, then it will be a complete bargain for other women!"
"It's a bit too much to say that going to someone else's concert is cheap..." Lin Yun couldn't help but curl his lips, "Aso's ticket fee is not very expensive, and there is nothing to lose just by watching a performance."
"What? Senior, you don't understand at all. I'm not talking about money!" Hong Siyu became even more unhappy.
——"I have objections too. You can find my photos by searching online."
Madoka Aso, who was standing by, raised her hand at this time: "I'm so famous, you can just check and know if it's me or not?"
"This is your first time to hold a concert in Fangting City. How can there be so much detailed information about you on the intercity network here?"
Lin Yun shook his head: "It's fine that there are few clear, unedited frontal photos on the Internet, but your current appearance is also quite different from my memory of your childhood. How can I confirm that it's you if I don't go to the scene?"
"What nonsense are you talking about, sister? My portrait photos are all original and do not need post-processing!"
Aso Yuanxiang's eyes suddenly widened: "And what you said is that if you can confirm that it is me, then you will not go to my concert? Is this true? So heartless? It's obviously my concert?"
"I have a lot of serious things to do here. How can I spend half a day just to listen to a few songs?"
Lin Yun lowered his eyelids slightly: "You know, I'm not very good at pop music and the like. Anyway, I can't tell whether it's good or bad."
"What kind of midlife crisis speech? You stay away from the mention of 'popular elements' and always talk about 'serious matters'. How come you have become such a boring guy after getting married?"
Aso Yuanxiang stuck out her tongue and made a disgusted expression: "No, ordinary middle-aged uncles at least have some hobbies such as fishing, playing cards and collecting. Do you really have any decent hobbies?"
Lin Yun was stunned.
He briefly recalled his daily life, not just the present, but also the life when Anya was still alive. No matter which time period he was in, it seemed that his focus was only on "work". Now that he has become a magical girl again, in addition to the option of taking care of children, he also has more work at the level of a magical girl.
Going back further, back to my student days, at that time, because I wanted to go to higher education, and magical girl matters took up a lot of my time, so I seemed to be the only one in the team who studied every day except for beating crippled beasts.
What exactly is a “hobby”?
"Does driving... count?"
After thinking about it, he could only find this one thing that occupied a certain proportion of his life. It seemed that only when he was driving could he relax his mind and did not need to think about things like work.
"Wow, to use the phrase young girls like, the greasy middle-aged smell is overflowing." Aso Yuanxiang exclaimed subconsciously.
"Senior..." Hong Siyu also looked at Lin Yun with a somewhat sympathetic look.
Being looked at with such a subtle expression by the two, even Lin Yun found it a little difficult to bear: "Wait a minute, although I really don't have any hobbies in life, I think we were discussing something else before. Is this the topic you are talking about that needs to be discussed now?"
"Sister, do you like this kind of person?"
However, this sentence was not conveyed to the other two people at all. Aso Yuanxiang turned around and said to Hong Siyu: "Don't let the filter of the past blind your eyes."
"Well...even so..."
Hong Siyu also cooperated very well and put on a tangled expression: "I will convince myself that it's okay. Men who concentrate on their work are also attractive..."
"Okay, that's enough for you two."
Lin Yun drooped his eyelids and clapped his hands: "Hongsi and you should stop following Aso's lead. We have finally gotten together again, shouldn't we exchange information first?"
"Ah, here I come, what standard official language." Aso Yuanxiang chuckled, "It's okay if you insist on changing the subject, but you might miss some very interesting things. For example, do you know what Hong Siyu said to me when you were not here? She is..."
As soon as she said this, before Lin Yun could even begin to feel confused, Hong Siyu rushed over from the side and covered her mouth from behind: "Nothing! I just thought it was my senior who came to the office so I called the wrong person, and I was surprised when I saw it was Yuanxiang!"
"Mmmm?" With her mouth covered, Aso Yuanxiang shook her head to try to break free. However, Hong Siyu completely disregarded her image at this time and hung on her back like an octopus, and she couldn't get rid of him no matter what.
"Ha... so it's just that I called the wrong person and it's embarrassing?"
Seeing the strange behavior of the two, Lin Yun guessed that there was probably something else going on. You know, when he came up from the Special Operations Department downstairs, he saw an extremely tense cold war scene. The two sat on the sofas on both sides, facing each other, but no one spoke: "Is it because of this that it has to be as tense as I saw when I walked in?"
"Oh, I just made some suggestions for improvement, but Hong Siyu seems to find it a little difficult to accept." It took a lot of effort to pull Hong Siyu's hand off her face. Aso Yuanxiang chuckled: "Forget it, since you don't want me to say it so much, I won't say it."
"I definitely can't reveal all the tactics that I haven't actually used yet..."
Hong Siyu muttered behind her head: "Anyway, don't talk about this, just get over this topic quickly."
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you, sister."
Aso Yuanxiang shrugged and said, "Then let's talk about the 'business' that our Director Lin always talks about."
Lin Yun raised his eyebrows when he heard this, but he was already used to the sarcastic tone in Aso Yuanxiang's words, so he did not refute.
The director's office, which had been noisy just now, suddenly became quiet.
"Which thing should we start with? Your side or mine?"
Aso Yuanxiang looked at Lin Yun, then at Hong Siyu: "For example, do you have any questions about the Kingdom? I have been in the Kingdom for the past ten years, and I should know more new information than you. But let me make it clear that many things I have heard from others and have not verified them personally, so don't blame me if there are any mistakes."
"What is Su Shengzi doing now?" Lin Yun asked directly.
Of the five members of the old Fangting City team, except Anya and Su Shengzi, the remaining three have already gathered here. Not to mention Anya, the absence of the fifth person is bound to make people concerned.
What’s more, the fifth person is Su Shengzi.
I don't know when it started, but there is a saying among magical girls that a successful magical girl team is often composed of the following members: an energetic mascot, a cold and proud practical person, a mature and sensible peacemaker, and a psychopath who likes to cause trouble.
This formula was applied to the old Fangting City team. Although the role positioning of other people was somewhat different, it was perfectly reflected in Su Shengzi.
——She is just a psychopath who always looks for trouble.
As long as Su Shengzi was there, the team would argue about some inexplicable and strange topics every day, and would always work hard for some strange goals. I don't know how much energy was wasted.
The most profound memory for Lin Yun was when Su Shengzi specially researched an instant technique to solidify the remains of animals for the ghost-hunting activities in the summer. He processed the remains of animals and made them into adventure materials, which eventually scared Hong Siyu into the hospital.
That's right, Su Shengzi is also the smartest one in the team. Although her magic power and magic equipment quality are not outstanding, her understanding and research ability of magic formulas are unique. She can even create some original small magic formulas based on the existing magic formula system. This magic formula for solidifying the corpse of the beast was specially invented by her.
Such a research talent is naturally favored by senior magical girls from all walks of life in the country. In fact, the first person in the team who talked to Emerald was not Lin Yun, but Su Shengzi.
According to Su Shengzi herself, Emerald personally extended an olive branch to her after asking her a few questions, inviting her to join the institute and even promising to get her flower cards within ten years. However, Su Shengzi rejected such an attractive condition without even a second thought.
"I only study what I am interested in. I don't want to be bossed around by the powerful people in the royal court."
This is Su Shengzi’s explanation for this.
And she finally put her words into practice. After ten years in office, she retired without hesitation. After retiring, she left Fangting City and disappeared completely from Lin Yun's life.
At present, all the members except her and Anya have returned, but the absence of such a big shot does make people feel that something is missing.
"That woman... Oh, don't you know?"
Speaking of this, Aso Yuanxiang suddenly sighed: "She ran to the world alone."
"...Huh?" It took Lin Yun several seconds to react to what the other party was saying. Hong Siyu also widened his eyes after hearing this.
The Intermediate World, a world independent of the Magic Kingdom and the Material World, has always been regarded as a representative of the "wild land" because of its extremely unstable spatial connection with the other two worlds and the unstable structure of the world itself. There are even rumors that the Intermediate World is the origin of monsters such as the Remnant Beast.
A series of anti-national organizations such as Black Cinder Dawn, Claw Scar, and the Resistance have their roots in the interworld, and they regard it as their base camp. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a paradise for crime, and for magical girls, it is like a den of dragons and tigers.
And Su Shengzi, a magical girl who had retired and completely lost her power, chose to go to the world of the living alone? "And the fact is, the last time I contacted her was nine years ago, when she retired and left Fangting City. I don't know much more than you do. I only heard her tell me that she was going to the world of the living, and her purpose was to 'travel to find herself'."
Aso Yuanxiang laughed dryly and said, "Then I couldn't contact her anymore."
She actually didn't finish her sentence. For most people, if someone runs to the other world alone and then disappears without a trace, it can basically be concluded that he is dead.
But that person was Su Shengzi.
Just like Lin Yun always felt unbelievable and unreal about Anya's death, Su Shengzi is also a person who makes people feel that he has nothing to do with the term "seeking death".
No matter how bizarre or abnormal her behavior is, it always makes people feel that she has her own agenda.
Therefore, considering her love for the research and development of magic, but her easy abandonment of the power of a magical girl; her past rebellious remarks that despised the royal court's dignitaries; and her extraordinary curiosity about the crippled beasts, Lin Yun couldn't help but have a very strange idea in his mind.
"...From what you said, that guy, could it be that he ran away to join Claw Mark?"
(End of this chapter)
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